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An art-music-arcade game, inSynch is handcrafted and animated in stop motion. The game jumps and hops between meditative compositions and devilishly hard time-attack challenges!

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Release Date:

Sep 30, 2015

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Them Games

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Them Games

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English	✔

Includes 14 Steam Achievements

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A plaster master

ApocalinSynch

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Title: inSynch
Genre: Indie

Developer: Them Games

Publisher: Them Games

Release Date: Sep 30, 2015

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Reviews

“Everything about inSynch's aesthetics is a treat to the eye and ear”
Indiegames

“As an experience, an audiovisual experience, inSynch shines. The stop-motion animations give the game a wonderful textured look, and the shapes move towards down the lanes, not as static figures, but imbued with life, dancing, unfolding, reforming, flapping, twisting and turning like abstract dancers.”
Indie Game Enthusiast

“Just seeing the trailer has me hooked. Its look and music are obvious draws, but the rhythm gameplay is right up my alley. It looks like it could get pretty hectic.”
Destructoid

About This Game

Somewhere between rhythm game and musical instrument, inSynch is an arcade game at heart. Allowing the player to act while being acted upon: follow the score you compose, express intent making sense of the music born from your actions.

A simple gameplay (press 4 keys to catch incoming shapes from the four corners of your screen) allows for a meditative Explore mode in which you play along the music you compose and a more survival-focused Exploit mode in which you try to hold-on to your lives as the game gets progressively harder.

Making it up

The game is entirely crafted and animated by hand using traditional stop motion animation techniques, giving a fragile and delicate feel to this musical experience.
Don’t let yourself be tricked though, Exploit mode gets hellishly difficult!

The game is an updated version of a museum exhibition prototype we made in 2011 and features a lengthy making of, packed with gorgeous photographs of the crafting of all our set pieces and art research, music composition captioned with insights into every step of the two year project.

Key Features

Try to catch the shapes coming at you from all four corners of your screen!
Shape the musical landscapes you explore and experience, expressing your intent through play.
Run for high score or survive as long as possible, while the game gets increasingly harder.
All animations and sets are handcrafted from real materials, photographed and animated in stop-motion.
Music loops and complete tracks were composed and recorded according to the unique gameplay.

System Requirements

Windows

macOS

SteamOS + Linux

Minimum:

OS *: Windows XP
Processor: 1.5GHz
Memory: 666 MB RAM
Graphics: Integrated
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 200 MB available space
Sound Card: Integrated
Additional Notes: We also require headphones

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

Minimum:

OS: Mac OS X 10.6
Processor: 1.5GHz
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: iGraphics
Storage: 250 MB available space
Sound Card: iMusic
Additional Notes: Please use iBuds

* Starting February 15, 2024, the Steam Client will no longer support 32-bit games or macOS 10.14 or lower.

Minimum:

OS: Your preferred distro with a GUI
Processor: 1.5GHz
Memory: 1337 MB RAM
Graphics: sudo apt-get install drivers
Storage: 250 MB available space
Sound Card: Darude - Sandstorm
Additional Notes: Please use open source headphones

inSynch is designed, developed, imagined, encoded, tuned, and marketed by Them Games in Paris, France.
+ http://www.themgames.net/

Graphical assets are designed, animated by hand and photographed by Sylvain Derosnes with post production work by Jean-Thomas SÈitÈ.
+ http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sylvain-derosne/65/282/291

Art direction for the game is provided by Le Creative Sweatshop, a Paris-based art collective.
+ http://www.lecreativesweatshop.com/

Music is composed, performed, produced and edited by qnp.
+ https://soundcloud.com/ek_sound

Animations were shot at Manuel Cam Studio in AsniËres.

+ http://manuelcam.fr/

We extend our thanks to the people who have worked on the game, helped it get noticed, and playtested the game.

This game was developped using SFML (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library) - Copyright ©Laurent Gomila.
This library is used freely under the zlib/png licence. We would like to thank the authors of this wonderful library for all the work and support they provide !

We can be reached at contact@themgames.net (which we actually read).

The contents of this game is the intellectual property of Them Games and is protected under French copyright law and has been legally registered in 2014.

Every art asset, sound effects, music, and graphics, as well as the code of the game are the sole property of Them Games SARL, and is not to be redistributed or reused in any way.

©Them Games SARL 2015.

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